I always have to show up to reiterate this is not a problem limited to Javascript. There have been framework fads for as long as there have been frameworks. I h

I always have to show up to reiterate this is not a problem limited to Javascript. There have been framework fads for as long as there have been frameworks. I have dim memories of dozens of C++/Java/Python/Ruby/etc. next-big-things. It does seem like there are more of them and they rise and fall faster in the Javascript world, but this is probably better explained by the sheer number of Javascript programmers than anything else. The labor statistics I can find peg the number of US software developers in 2002 at around 612,000 and around 3.87 million in 2016 - and most of the new ones focus on web development. There are way more web programmers out there than there have really ever been, so it makes sense that the rate of frameworks appearing (and to a degree, the overall lifecycle churn) would be accelerated.